The 2 surviving members of The Beatles could “come collectively” for the Rolling Stones’ upcoming album.
Paul McCartney, 80, and Ringo Starr, 82, are reported to each play an element within the at present unannounced Stones album.
Based on Selection, McCartney has recorded bass elements throughout recording classes that came about in Los Angeles in current weeks, and Starr can be slated to play drums.
It’s at present unclear whether or not McCartney and Starr will find yourself on the identical monitor or which songs will make the ultimate monitor listing. The album, produced by 2021 Grammy Producer of the 12 months Andrew Watt, is getting near the blending section and has “numerous tracks performed,” Mick Jagger shared in 2021.
Final month, guitarist Keith Richards shared with followers in an Instagram video that “there’s some new music on its manner.”
It’s thought that the album will function recorded elements from the late founding drummer Charlie Watts, who died “peacefully” in August 2021. He handed shortly after stepping down from his function within the band as a consequence of an undisclosed medical process, simply earlier than they have been scheduled to relaunch a tour postponed by the pandemic.
Jagger, 79, and Richards, 79, confirmed after Watts’ passing that he had recorded a lot of songs previous to his dying.
“Let me put it this manner,” Richards advised the Los Angeles Occasions in 2021. “You haven’t heard the final of Charlie Watts.”
The Rolling Stones and The Beatles are longtime acquaintances and have a historical past of pleasant rivalry. It’s been nearly 60 years since they first met, they usually’ve hardly ever collaborated on music.
The Stones’ first hit was truly a canopy of the Beatles’ “I Wanna Be Your Man” in 1963, and John Lennon and McCartney later sang backup on the Stones’ track “We Love You” in 1967.
Additionally in 1967, the Stones’ Brian Jones performed saxophone on The Beatles’ “You Know My Title (Look Up the Quantity).”
However the pleasant battle of the bands intensified in 2021 when McCartney described the Stones as a “blues cowl band” — seemingly referencing their album of blues covers.
Jagger later joked at a live performance wherein McCartney was in attendance that he would “be a part of us in a blues cowl.”
Richards later mentioned that McCartney reached out to make clear the remark was taken out of context.
The upcoming document would mark the Rolling Stones’ first album of unique materials since 2005’s “A Greater Bang.” (Their most up-to-date album, nevertheless, was 2016’s assortment of covers, “Blue & Lonesome.”)
The Rolling Stones have put out 30 studio albums over the span of their greater than 60 years collectively as a band.
